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...Carter team unpacked their briefcases in their new offices, the First Family quickly made itself at home in Washington. On their first Sunday, most of them drove eight blocks to join the First Baptist Church, which has about 50 blacks among its 950 members and was Harry Truman's church. Silver-haired Senior Minister Charles Trentham greeted the Carters with outstretched arms. Said he: "This church undergirds you and surrounds your family with prayers." Before the service, Jimmy and Rosalynn attended an adult Sunday-school class, where the teacher. Insurance Executive Fred Gregg, exclaimed, "Mr. President, you know this...
...Martin Luther King Sr., bundled up in a heavy black overcoat and brown hat, praised Carter for not forgetting the little people. According to an aide, the Carters skipped that ceremony to keep it from "turning into a circus," and worshiped instead at Washington's First Baptist Church...
Jimmy Carter has announced that he will serve nothing stronger than wine when he moves into the White House this week, and he drinks only an occasional Scotch. That temperate approach has proved a disappointment to out-and-out prohibitionists, since Carter is a devout member of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Southern Baptists are among the driest of U.S. church groups...
...celebrated Southern Baptist, Billy Graham, leaped to the new President's defense in a Miami Herald interview. As Graham reads his well-worn Bible, there is no doubt that "Jesus drank wine." After all, he miraculously turned six huge jars of water into wine at the wedding at Cana (John 2: 1-11). "That wasn't grape juice, as some of them try to claim," added Graham...
...grow up with Roy Acuff and Porter Waggoner and WSL-Nashville and Martha White biscuits and their goddamn commercials. The best of John Prine's songs are about what it is to grow up in and hate a rural town, hating Main Street and the Baptist preachers and Vietnam and racism, but alwasy coming back because face it-what can a city offer to someone who's known a better life? So now we have what amounts to a collection of John Prine's greatest hits, although since he's never had a hit he really can't call...